It Had a Handle on It!

 It Had a Handle on It!

 

Have decided that what makes cleaning floors hard on a body is that silly handle. Doesn’t matter if it is a lightweight Bissell or a full-blown Kirby or just your everyday mop—it has to be the handle that makes it so very tiring! Of course, a hoe, the spade fork, and the rake also have handles. Those can do plenty of whatever is special about them to make the old back groan. However, today it is the vacuum (Bissell), the dust mop, and the wet mop that are doing double duty. Moving the furniture out from the walls could not possibly have anything to do with the tiring out of an old body!

 

Walked down to Patty’s this morning to run Roxy and just visit and enjoy the sight of all that beautiful grass mown down and looking so much like a park or golf course. Blake may have missed a tiny spot or two, but it is still beautiful! Makes me want to see some lambs or goats on it. Patty pointed out that they would need some kind of protection from the coyotes, bobcats, and dogs, but since these are wishful critters grazing the grass, the wishful shed for their protection would be easy to come by.

 

The microwave just beeped that din-upper is ready—or at least the four minutes to heat up the storage tray has elapsed. Those little storage trays are mighty nice until they get warped by either the heat or whatever makes them brittle. A large-ish meal can be made into several servings when separated into four or five trays. Easy to heat meals! Yes, the old woman is somewhat lazy.

 

The thirty percent vinegar worked like a charm on the grass where it was sprayed. Had been told that it only lasted 24 hours, but it seems to still be killing where it was sprayed on the sidewalk and along side the flower bed. Now to get that Bermuda grass out of the flower bed entirely!

 

Need to go out and be sure that the wasp nests that were sprayed yesterday with wasp killer have no more wasps on them. Carol Thonton reminded me that some of the wasps will come back as long as a nest remains. Great. Just great! Sure enough! Just a few live ones, but one is all it takes to hurt like something on fire!

 

Reading from Max Lucado today about how no other religion claims that God is IN them. Yet we know that Christ’s spirit is IN us! It was not just on Pentecost that the Spirit came to stay with men. When we give up our way, we can accept the one who wants to be in us forever. Being loved forever is the dream of every heart on earth—that’s just the way we are made. And through Christ, we are promised that everlasting love. No matter what Satan does to our world, he cannot take that love from us.

 

Rest well, my friends. You are loved.